Winter's Here - Put the Top Down

Out of the heat, finally. I'm so glad it has cooled off, my goal is to leave the convertable top down for the remainder of the fall. Kind of opposite of what you'd expect. If you are from a temperate zone, the summer is roadster weather. In the dead of summer in Tucson it's too hot to leave the top down, you wait till it cools off. Driving with the top stowed or the windows down in July makes as much sense as a screen door on the space shuttle. To allow the harsh, blinding, white-hot atmosphere to intrude would mean death. Your car roasts in the parking lot, the seats smolder, the dashboard cracks, the microscopic windshield pockmarks spontanously sprout festive footlong cracks from the heat. Summer sucks. I declare it over and the miata is in it's element. As am I.